speaking volumes

I have classmates who wear their Izod polo shirts with the collars up.

Sigh. And when my CivPro prof just responded to an email in which I asked him why he doesn't refer to former superintendent at "Dr. Migra" instead of Ms., he said it's a bias from childhood when he was taught that it would be silly to call academic doctorates Dr. because everybody around him had that or a JD (which technically is also a doctor).

I'm SO from a different world. The only lawyer I knew as a child was a pedophile, the only PhD a strange uncle nobody really talked to. I knew teachers and mill workers and farmers and cowboys and fisherpeople.

I know someday it will be an asset. For now, I just look around me and wonder "This is is not my beautiful life, oh my god, what have I done!?"